# Movies you've seen recently (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 29, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906 "2014-09-29T21:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 309
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6176 "2023-03-07T22:40:32Z")
8th movie: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN. I’ve seen IN BRUGES like 1,100 times, and did enjoy THREE BILLBOARDS, so I’m a McDonough fan. This was excellent as well, even if it was of a very different character from those two (though, I could make a case that the two characters played by Gleason and Farrell are ancestors of the guys in IN BRUGES). I don’t have much to say about this film, other than I know it was necessary for the plot to kill Jenny, but I was very sad. I also inadvertently snorted VERY loudly in the theater when Gleason begins his confession with “I killed a donkey today’. Barry Keoghan was just terrific. Wonderful dialogue. Also, the old lady who is essentially a banshee of Inisherin, her I kind of grew to appreciate . I was worried that the plot would involve a character spending the entire movie engaging in nonsensical behavior, but it did not happen. 88/100. 9th movie: THE FABELMANS. This is as Very Sincere movie about growing up Spielberg (even if it doesn’t say so) and loving film, and long sections of it felt very familiar to me, and sometimes just exaggerated for effect (though I could make the case that what’s viewed through the eyes of a kid _is_ exaggerated). Lots of great individual moments, but a little too much homage-to-film for me. I’d rather watch Super 8 next time. 70/100. At long last, the last movie, #10: ELVIS. I don’t really enjoy Baz Luhrmann, and Elvis as a musician kind of bores me, but I did like parts of this very much – in particular, the concert scenes were really impressive. Austin Butler also seemed made for this role. But did I need 2 hrs 39 mins of this? I went in with low expectations and it exceeded them, but that’s about it. A funny way to wrap watching nine movies in three days. 60/100. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6177 "2023-03-07T22:42:27Z")
Fuck, I forgot to mention what was either Star Wars theft or Star Wars homage. Add that to my complaints, sir! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6178 "2023-03-07T23:09:43Z")
As a Tarantino fan, there is no theft, only homage. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6179 "2023-03-08T00:01:39Z")
**Maserschmidt** , have you seen _Calvary_ yet? Another McDonough film, with Brendan Gleeson stunningly good as the embattled priest of a small Irish town. Very powerful, with flashes of gallows humor. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6180 "2023-03-08T01:59:26Z")
That’s his brother, John Michael McDonagh, and I haven’t seen it yet…but I’ll give it a look! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6181 "2023-03-08T02:12:53Z")
Calvary is indeed his brother’s best movie. The Forgiven is also excellent from him; I highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6182 "2023-03-09T01:11:30Z")
**Ouija: Origin of Evil** Never watch the original Ouija movie, but do check out this prequel that is superior in every way. Directed by Mike Flanagan, who clearly shows what a great director can bring to a movie. The script is hardly amazing, but the filmmaking is. For about the first 45 minutes, you nearly forget this is a horror movie. I do think it devolves into standard stuff a bit near the end, but everything is well made and it is edited at a brisk pace the keeps things moving. I lied the movie quite a bit, but I am also glad that Flanagan moved onto better things as his career progressed from here. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6183 "2023-03-09T01:23:39Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > But did I need 2 hrs 39 mins of this? Baz Luhrman always gives you more than you want. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6184 "2023-03-09T01:25:52Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Baz Luhrman always gives you more than you want. There’s more where that came from! > **[Austin Butler's Elvis Concerts — Totaling 4 Hours — Will Be Cut Together,...](https://people.com/movies/austin-butlers-elvis-concerts-totaling-4-hours-will-be-cut-together-says-baz-luhrmann/)** > > At the 2022 Gotham Awards in New York City Monday, 'Elvis' director Baz Luhrmann said that he will eventually put together a 'concert cut' of the biopic starring Austin Butler that includes each of the full concerts the actor performed in character... ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6185 "2023-03-09T01:27:44Z")
No! I don’t want any more!!! ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6186 "2023-03-09T10:04:56Z")
I’m glad there’s no extended cuts of Spielberg movies, there already seems to be nobody who can tell him to cut that spare hour he has in every one of his movies. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6187 "2023-03-10T15:17:50Z")
Not a movie per se, but last night we went to a showing of the 5 nominees for Best Documentary Short. All 5 were excellent in their own way; I’ve made my pick for the winner (which wasn’t, actually, my favorite of the 5), [The trailer for one of them ends with perhaps the most astonishing shot I’ve ever seen.](https://shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/assets/trailers/documentary/HAULOUT_1280.mp4) ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6188 "2023-03-10T17:55:40Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > 5th movie: WOMEN TALKING. We’ll start with the fact that I love Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell”, so I do start out a little biased. The idea of this film, which isn’t a spoiler and is based on a true story in Bolivia, is that a subset of women members of a religious group are trying to make a decision about what to do, during a brief respite while their incredibly abusive husbands are in jail. Their choices are flee/leave, fight back, or forgive, and there are some advocates for each (though many fewer for forgive). > > I’ve seen this compared to 12 ANGRY MEN, but that’s not right…this is not a dynamic of the stubborn, evil traditionalists vs the ethical modernists, and some key decisions actually get made early on. What this is is a lot of very raw discussions about power, and community, and what evil does to its victims. It’s both painful and amazing, and the acting and direction are genius. Just watched this. Your summary is right on the mark. I can see the parallels to **12 Angry Men** in that there are 2 camps grappling with a fundamental decision: stay or leave (vs. guilt/not guilty). But as you point out, that’s about as far as the similarity goes as these women need to decide for their entire community. Super moving and extremely powerful. I though it was excellent (great performances by so many), and I can see why it is up for best picture. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6189 "2023-03-10T19:20:38Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’ve seen this compared to 12 ANGRY MEN, but that’s not right… > [@peccavi](#): > > **Women Talking** - 12 Angry Women. Well, sort of. Sarah Polley (a brilliant director) has written and directed an intense drama which is primarily scenes of women talking. Talking about their future in a religious cult where they are not allowed an education, must submit to their husbands, and are subject to nightly sexual assaults by the men and boys of the cult. It is obviously allegorical, but it kept me riveted. It’s joke! When you Give me that look, it’s a joke! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VYHGnsOwHvI/maxresdefault.jpg "Its a JOKE - Krusty") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYHGnsOwHvI) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6190 "2023-03-11T16:36:07Z")
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERI Stone walls DO a prison make! Too many cuts! Loved the dog tugging implement out the door. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6191 "2023-03-11T17:05:21Z")
**The Intern** (2015). Robert DeNiro is a 70 year old retired widower who decides to take an internship at an internet clothing company, founded and run by Ann Hathaway. So DeNiro and Hathaway hook up and live happily ever after, right? Ewwww, no, that would be gross (Rene Russo is also around as DeNiro’s age-appropriate romantic interest). It’s a rom-com without the rom. It’s not as awful as I thought it was going to be…actually, kinda cute. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6192 "2023-03-11T17:33:12Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > Too many cuts! Five too many! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6193 "2023-03-12T00:09:03Z")
I’ve been wanting to watch _Women Talking_ but I can’t find anyone else to watch it with me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6194 "2023-03-12T01:02:14Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’ve been wanting to watch _Women Talking_ but I can’t find anyone else to watch it with me I watch a good chunk of my movies alone. I don’t find I mind at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6195 "2023-03-12T01:32:31Z")
BBC apparently thought that bringing back “Luther” as a two-hour movie was necessary. I’m halfway through it and it’s so over-the-top outlandish as to be mesmerizing. Andy Serkis is a master criminal who knows all and sees all, a trope that I really hate. And one can’t help but think one is watching Gollum trying to act. It’s on Netflix, if you’re interested. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=308) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=310)